the standing committee on research misconduct at the university of colorado concluded that churchill had committed multiple counts of academic misconduct , specifically pl ##agi ##aris ##m , fabrication , and fa ##ls ##ification . on july 24 , 2007 , churchill was fired for academic misconduct in an eight to one vote by the university of colorado ' s board of regents . = = genealogy and tribal affiliation = = in 2003 , churchill stated , " i am myself of mu ##sco ##gee and creek descent on my father ' s side , cherokee on my mother ' s , and am an enrolled member of the united ke ##eto ##owa ##h band of cherokee indians . " in 1992 , churchill wrote elsewhere that
the standing committee on research misconduct at the university of colorado concluded that churchill had committed multiple counts of academic misconduct, specifically plagiarism, fabrication, and falsification. on july 24, 2007, churchill was fired for academic misconduct in an eight to one vote by the university of colorado's board of regents. = = genealogy and tribal affiliation = = in 2003, churchill stated, " i am myself of muscogee and creek descent on my father's side, cherokee on my mother's, and am an enrolled member of the united keetoowah band of cherokee indians. " in 1992, churchill wrote elsewhere that